Re: Chinese punctuation in Lyric mode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Hi, I'm trying to typeset a song with Chinese lyrics in Lilypond
> 2.15.40-1 and I've ran into an issue with the horizontal alignment
> of Chinese punctuation.  While Chinese stops (U+3002 "。") and
> full-width commas (U+FF0C "，") are correctly offset from the
> centred syllables, the Chinese "dunhao" is not.  Dunhao is a special
> kind of comma that is used to separate items in a list in Chinese;
> it is U+3001 "、" and it would be nice if it could exhibit the same
> behaviour as other commas.  I've "kludged" it for now by adding
> \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT at the start of each
> lyricsto block, but that's not ideal as it then needs further
> "kludges" for left-hanging punctuation (opening quotations etc); is
> there a way to fix it properly?

Please show a small input file, together with an image, ideally
demonstrating how it currently looks and what you are expecting.


    Werner